"nosefirst" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more nosefirst",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most nosefirst",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        {
          "word": "nose-first"
        }
      ],
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1986, Aviation Cases - Volume 20",
          "text": "At this point in time — approximately 300 feet above the ground— the aircraft was rapidly descending downward in a nosefirst attitude.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Journal of the British Interplanetary Society - Volume 56, page 110",
          "text": "However the drawback to this approach is that the nosefirst attitude is aerodynamically unstable since the aft mounted engine package pulls the empty center of gravity a considerable distance behind the hypersonic center of pressure.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Dana Stabenow, Whisper to the Blood, page 217",
          "text": "Her snow machine was nosefirst in the snowbank on the right-hand side of the creek.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of nose-first"
      ],
      "id": "en-nosefirst-en-adj-uw8lBQuo",
      "links": [
        [
          "nose-first",
          "nose-first#English"
        ]
      ],
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    }
  ],
  "word": "nosefirst"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more nosefirst",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most nosefirst",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
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      "expansion": "nosefirst (comparative more nosefirst, superlative most nosefirst)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
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          "word": "nose-first"
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1977, William E. Burrows, Vigilante!, page 28",
          "text": "The defeat was made complete when Morton's only functioning follower ran nosefirst into the point of a sword held by one of Standish's men.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1992, Joe Foss, Paul McCarthy, Top Guns, page 285",
          "text": "The sight of a destroyer slipping nosefirst beneath the water, carrying its crew to their deaths, was something that I could no longer watch.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Joseph Monninger, Stay Alive #1: Crash",
          "text": "It dropped nosefirst, and though Russell tried to get the nose to rise, the weight of the engine forced it down.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of nose-first"
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "nose-first",
          "nose-first#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "nosefirst"
}

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    "English adverbs",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more nosefirst",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most nosefirst",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        {
          "ref": "1986, Aviation Cases - Volume 20",
          "text": "At this point in time — approximately 300 feet above the ground— the aircraft was rapidly descending downward in a nosefirst attitude.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Journal of the British Interplanetary Society - Volume 56, page 110",
          "text": "However the drawback to this approach is that the nosefirst attitude is aerodynamically unstable since the aft mounted engine package pulls the empty center of gravity a considerable distance behind the hypersonic center of pressure.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Dana Stabenow, Whisper to the Blood, page 217",
          "text": "Her snow machine was nosefirst in the snowbank on the right-hand side of the creek.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of nose-first"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "nose-first",
          "nose-first#English"
        ]
      ],
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        "alt-of",
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      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "nosefirst"
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    "English adverbs",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
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  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more nosefirst",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most nosefirst",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        {
          "ref": "1977, William E. Burrows, Vigilante!, page 28",
          "text": "The defeat was made complete when Morton's only functioning follower ran nosefirst into the point of a sword held by one of Standish's men.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1992, Joe Foss, Paul McCarthy, Top Guns, page 285",
          "text": "The sight of a destroyer slipping nosefirst beneath the water, carrying its crew to their deaths, was something that I could no longer watch.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Joseph Monninger, Stay Alive #1: Crash",
          "text": "It dropped nosefirst, and though Russell tried to get the nose to rise, the weight of the engine forced it down.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of nose-first"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "nose-first",
          "nose-first#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "nosefirst"
}